Oh, I do believe we will see it happen one day. That said, after 9 years in the fangirl chorus on the WordPress.com rollercoaster ride featuring many announced and frequently unwelcome changes, I have discovered that singing is more likely to result in happiness than blogging, which can result in screaming, does.

It looks to me like Google picked up an HTTPS link for your latest post when it should not have. The only reason I can think of that it would have done that is that somewhere there is a broken link to that post using https:// instead of http:// (the working link). Clicking on the latest post from inside the blog at http://piedtype.com/ is working normally, so the broken link is not coming from there.

but what about all my readers? Won't they still see it?

It shouldn't for links that are picked up properly. There could be more going on here than I know about, but from what I can see so far, Google should be crawling your site normally and I don't know why it has the wrong link for your latest post.

Won't that kill or discourage readership?

Since the problem is only happening for the latest post, it shouldn't. To make sure it's not a bug or that it's because of something that is happening behind the scenes, can you check your next post to see if the same thing happens again? Or if other people are experiencing this, can you please make a note here and include a link to the post? This way, we can rule out this being a temporary glitch of some kind.

I paid for the custom domain name but WP won't support SSL on it!? Terrific.

I think many hosts charge extra for SSL. It's not something WordPress.com offers just yet, but it's something we'd like to in the future. Sorry we don't have it yet!

Could Google have crawled it while I was previewing it? That might explain why Google claimed to have crawled it more than 7 hours before I posted it. Whatever the explanation, it's working correctly now. Go figure.

When pulling up the URL to my URL, it says the WordPress certificate is not valid and unsafe. I use the domain hosting via WP and need to know how this can be fixed. If others are getting the same message when trying to access my website, then this is a huge problem.

This site is for support of sites hosted on WordPress.COM. You should address your questions to WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using: http://wordpress.org/support/

The forum at WordPress.ORG is not connected to WordPress.COM so you will need to open an account at .ORG if you do not already have one. You may use the same email at WordPress.ORG as you do at WordPress.COM.

I'm trying to move my hosting over to Bluehost and was told to contact WordPress to get my CSR and CRT and SSL certificate. I believe I need to input this info to be able to use plugins, which currently aren't able to be downloaded (I currently get an an error: "Could not create directory. Plugin install failed."

How do I get this info from my old WordPress? I can't even find a way to contact them directly. Thank you so much for anyone able to help.

We need details please.
1. What is the domain URL?
2. What is the underlying .wordpress.com URL?
3. Exactly which username account registered the underlying .wordpress.com blog and purchased the upgrade for it?
4. When was the upgrade purchased?

When your domain was hosted with us, we issued a certificate via Let's Encrypt, but that certificate expired the moment you changed your domain's name servers from us to Bluehost.

There is no way to transfer the SSL certificate we issued to Bluehost and there doesn't exist any credentials that I can give you in this regard. If you still want to use SSL on your domain for your Bluehost site you need to set it up with Bluehost directly.